There might be some potential here for seller financing if you have a chance to build some relationship with the seller.

I try to steer everyone away from wholesaling when getting started because you are far more likely to ruin your chances of investing successfully long-term than you are to jumpstart a great investing career. 

I like GC because the proximity to Philly gives it a chance to be something good, like we're starting to see with Camden.Smaller towns have small town problems, like bureaucracy in inspections.

Hi Thomas,Your chances of collecting from this downward spiral life person seems very remote.Unless the prison system allows you to lean his 2 cents a day wages for pressing licence plates.Just my 2 cents.

I have not had a chance to attend their meetings but I heard good things.

I can tell you that I've landed MANY deals for my clients that they had no chance of landing on their own. 

Helpful tip, drive for dollars on trash days and look for properties that are beat up with no trash cans out front, good chance those are vacant. 

That's why my recommendation to use TSP here, which is not the safest cleaner out there, always stands to get rid of nicotine residue.TSP also does something else: at high concentrations and when it's had a chance to soak, it significantly softens latex paint, primer, and all sorts of binders.

When you have a chance, write down what kind of property you want, where you want it, etc.

If you follow the BRRRR strategy and the project is really successful you have a chance of refinancing the property where you have no cash left in the deal.